Katie Lavigne
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Honours) in Psychology (Concordia University, 2008)
M.Sc. in Neuroscience (University of British Columbia, 2013)
Ph.D. in Neuroscience (University of British Columbia, 2018)
Cognition, neuroimaging, psychiatry, open science, digital mental health
Dr. Katie Lavigne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at 鶹AV and a Researcher at the Douglas Research Centre, where she also leads the Douglas Open Science Program. She received a PhD in Neuroscience in 2018 from the University of British Columbia and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Neuro and Douglas Research Centre in 2023. Her research focuses on cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders, “from EMA to MRI”, including developing open-source digital tools to improve cognitive assessment, measuring cognitive variability using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), and identifying mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction with multimodal magnetic resonance imaging and computational neuroscience techniques.